Uploading vShield Manager 5.0.1 to vCloud Director as a vApp Template

A quick post on how to enable the import of vShield Manager 5.0.1 OVA as a vApp Template into vCloud Director. This will allow you to spin up vCloud Director labs inside of vCloud Director for some crazy inception action.

Note: that this method can be used for other appliances.

As you know if you downloaded vShield Manager from VMware, the file format would be in OVA format, which is not compatible with vCloud Director.

This post goes through some of the steps required to

Convert the OVA to OVF

Edit the OVF to remove vCloud Director unsupported features (vmw:ExtraConfig)